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Funcom has partnered with MMORPG.com to bring our readers new information about some of the as-yet unseen locations that players will discover in The Secret World. In the first of a series of location reveals, we bring you the City of the Sun God in Egypt. Read on!

These tombs and temples were supposed to remain hidden for all time. Some date back further than the mind can reach, while others were built by the Black Pharaoh - Akhenaten - toward the end of his reign.

Modern archaeologists know all about Amarna, but not the secret site for which it was abandoned. Something stirs deep in this valley - a voice that drew the Black Pharoah here and drove him mad.

The players must step through Amarna's dark mirror, a twisted temple city dedicated to the true face of the Black Pharaoh's god, the Aten.

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Akhenaten (/???k??n??t?n/;[1] also spelled Echnaton,[6], Akhenaton,[7]Ikhnaton,[8] and Khuenaten;[9][10] meaning "living spirit of Aten") known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV (sometimes given its Greek form, Amenophis IV, and meaning Amun is Satisfied), was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC. He is especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten, which is sometimes described as monotheistic or henotheistic. An early inscription likens the Aten to the sun as compared to stars, and later official language avoids calling the Aten a god, giving the solar deity a status above mere gods.

Akhenaten tried to bring about a departure from traditional religion, yet in the end it would not be accepted. After his death, traditional religious practice was gradually restored, and when some dozen years later rulers without clear rights of succession from the Eighteenth Dynasty founded a new dynasty, they discredited Akhenaten and his immediate successors, referring to Akhenaten himself as "the enemy" in archival records.[11]

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I read that. The history is way cool. Gotta love a game that makes you go and get some knowledge happening. Gonna love reading up on all the history, myths, legends and folklore I will be exposed to.

I also really like the subject matter, of this content and the content of the entire game. There's no "lore" deeper and richer than the history of our planet. It's something that most people find instantly recognizable, and resonates with them on some level.

I remember someone at Mythic once saying the reason they went with the Arthurian cycle for DAOC was that it was one of the most recognizable IPs available that didn't cost anything to license. Smart. Funcom is capitalizing in the same way, using the events and myths from our own history, which are often more interesting than the ones generated by writers of fiction because they actually have meaning within our own cultures.

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The game uses a plan like system simmilar to anarchy online where you can summon world bosses via crafting, you will notice there are suspicious looking areas with no quest objectives or mobs on the kingsmouth map like a circle of standing stones that can be interupted with but do nothing. I suspect these are something to do with the plan system.

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And throw in the fact that much of the lore can be interpreted a few ways leaves the door open to take it in a few directions.......

I hope that they include content involving Gobekli Tepe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XqfjWCUgfk

Good call.

There's more interesting history and myths than FC could probably ever have the time to implement into the game - much of it esoteric history/archeaology that a lot of people generally haven't heard much about. I agree, there are a lot of ways they can twist these myths and events to make them interesting in the game.

One other thing that I like is the way they've incorporated a lot of required knowledge in some parts of the game, and some interesting puzzles as well. Makes it more interesting to me. It isn't all just killing mobs or other players.

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Going to have to still err on the side of caution with this game. While I do like what I read & have seen about this title so far, I am going to wait for a couple of weeks after launch to see how the game pans out.